Billions of dollars have been invested to improve the quality of government in developing countries. The evidence shows that the chances of those investments being effective are about the same as that of calling heads or tails correctly. While the quality of government matters, the development community is still somewhat confused about what “good governance”
Last week, I answered frequently asked questions about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – what they are, why they’re important, and what we want to see in the next round. This week, I want to focus on how the MDGs have sharpened efforts and accelerated progress toward meeting some of the world’s biggest development challenges.
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Photo caption: Co-chairs of the UN High Level Panel: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom, and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. Photo credit: UN. M-D-G: These three letters are going to be at the tip of our tongues for the next few weeks as the UN High-Level
This week, ONE and Save the Children gathered close to 200 Liberians, including several Liberian ONE members, at a popular event in Monrovia, which included an exhibition and panel on transparency and accountability in the city’s iconic City Hall. ONE members at the Liberia event City Hall was packed all afternoon with the young and
This piece was originally posted in TrustLaw Later this week, a group of 26 people will meet in Liberia to discuss how the world should tackle global development challenges over the next decade or two. It’s essential they thrust transparency, accountability and better open data into the heart of the debate and act on it.
Have you heard of BTAP, The Global Movement for Budget Transparency, Accountability and Participation? They’re a young, vibrant movement of activists and organizations who work together to increase budget transparency, allowing for citizens to participate in budgetary processes and hold their governments to account for how they are spending national finances. This week, BTAP launched
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Zali, age 12, was forced to marry an older man This piece was written by Erin Kennedy, advocacy technical adviser for CARE’s Gender and Empowerment Unit “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage.” Frank Sinatra’s famous refrain didn’t invent the notion that marital bliss is based on a deep and mutual emotional
This blog post was written by Kathleen Lay. Women are a formidable economic force across emerging markets in Africa, yet their role in economic production remains largely unrecognized. Their continued inability to access and control economic and social capital assets and resources has been a central factor in perpetuating Africa’s poverty trap and keeping the
This post by Kadiatu Blango was kindly provided by the Restless Development My name is Kadiatu, I am 20 and have two daughters. I had my second child when I was 18. Like every mother, I want the very best for my children and do everything I can for them, but I worry that it
This post by Assemblywoman Memuna Sandow was kindly provided by the Millennium Villages Project Before I became a district assemblywoman in 2009, I had already been working with my community for years, especially the women. But I came to realize that despite my hard work, without an official position, my ability to effect change would
Life carries on outside of a major gold mine in Ghana. Photo credit: Olivier Blaise/ PWYP On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally voted to adopt the final rules implementing the Cardin-Lugar extractives transparency provision or Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act. The law passed in July 2010 and these long-awaited rules were
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